Team Leader in Stockport

Location: Specialist Day Service (Brinnington, Stockport)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week | Full time - Permanent

Salary: £36,040 per annum | Grade 3 – Point 7

Enhancement: Time and a quarter for weekend hours worked

Reports to: Service Manager

Required Qualification: To apply for this role you must have completed a QCF Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent.

Flexibility: A requirement of this role is to support Team Leaders in other Trust services, when necessary, across Greater Manchester.

Working pattern: Working flexibly over 5 days.

A current driving licence is required for this role, held for at least 12 months.

Specialist Day Service (Brinnington, Stockport) supports adults with autism and learning disabilities that might not suit traditional day services or a vocational path. The service designs bespoke weekly programmes for the individuals they support ensuring they have regular access to their local community, social inclusion and opportunities to develop leisure skills.

The role involves:

• Reporting to a Service Manager, responsible for the day-to-day operational leadership of the service.
• Supporting and developing the staff team, ensuring high-quality, person-centred support is delivered.
• Promoting safe, inclusive and empowering practice across both provisions.
• Ensuring practice is delivered in line with sector best practice, organisational policies, safeguarding requirements and recognised quality frameworks.
• Maintaining positive cultures, supporting staff wellbeing, and ensuring the voices, choices and rights of the people we support are central to everything we do.
• Quality assurance of our services with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Additional key responsibilities include:

• Effectively managing all service resources to enable the people supported to achieve optimal outcomes in safe and secure environments.
• Arranging, attending and producing accurate records of multidisciplinary meetings with other professionals and/or family liaison meetings and other stakeholders.
• Developing an open, robust and participatory management culture under the direction of the Service Manager.
• Providing staff supervisions, attending team meetings, implementing team development plans including planning for and releasing staff to participate in mandatory training.
• Assisting with the selection, recruitment and retention of staff.
• Ensuring standards of care and support meet and/or exceed the requirements of the people supported and their families, CQC and commissioners of the service.
• Overseeing all aspects of health & safety within services.
• Ensuring the safeguarding of all individuals and following the Together Trust’s policies and procedures.
• Managing any/all financial elements of the service effectively.
• Contributing to the strategic direction and development of the service.

What can you bring to the service?

• QCF Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent (completed).
• Significant residential or community care experience supporting vulnerable individuals.
• Experience of writing behaviour support plans and risk assessments.
• Experience of providing regular, motivating supervision and development targets.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Knowledge of the policy framework for adult services and CQC regulations.
• Understanding of the Social Model of Disability and issues relating to vulnerable adults.
• Experience of supporting and coaching staff, and nurturing team development.
• Ability to manage difficult and challenging situations whilst maintaining high standards of care and support.
• Capability to make a direct positive impact on the lives of the adults, and their families we support.

We also offer:

• Annual Leave: Full time entitlement is 27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years.
• Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit.
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card.
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities.
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• A caring, supportive environment for all our employees.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself). This role will involve regulated activity.

We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.

We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people.

We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.